Warning: Do not attempt this at home! Actual elapsed time: way longer than 1 minute!

Watch expert AGO installlers Craig, Ben, Ruth, and Jacques install Jacques-Louis David’s The Oath of the Horatii, part of Drama & Desire: Artists and the Theatre, opening June 19 and running through September 26 at the AGO.

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It is enjoyable to see such care taken with wonderful works of art. Thomas Hoving said in one of his excellent books,”the crown jewel of any museum is it’s European Baroque Art.” Although the David is a classical work of art it truly is a crown jewel.

It is enjoyable to see such care taken with wonderful works of art. Thomas Hoving said in one of his excellent books,”the crown jewel of any museum is it’s European Baroque Art.” Although the David is a classical work of art it truly is a crown jewel.

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